Every time bitcoin rips, my phone lights up with the same question: "How's it going in crypto?"
I don't work in crypto. I work in bitcoin. And the gap between the two is enormous.
Bitcoin solves a fundamental problem — money controlled by a handful of institutions who debase your savings to fund wars, bail out banks, and expand their own power. It's permissionless, decentralized, and can't be printed into oblivion.
Crypto? Solutions looking for problems. NFTs pretending to transfer ownership of infinitely copyable images. DeFi that's neither decentralized nor finance. Tokenized real estate that creates more complexity than it removes.
When bitcoin pumps, thousands of altcoins ride its coattails. You'll hear about some kid turning $500 into $5M on a dog coin. You won't hear about the timing required to buy right, sell right, and extract liquidity from a paper-thin market — all while fighting your own greed.
FIRE is a low time preference game. Methodical wealth building over time, risk kept to a minimum. Chasing a 1000x on a meme coin is the exact opposite of that.
Bitcoin is the signal. Everything else is noise.
I break down why bitcoin is the only asset that belongs in a FIRE portfolio → https://firebtc.io/p/no-i-dont-mean-crypto
Trey
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